The Kerryman (North Kerry)

Minute by minute

- FIRST HALF SECOND HALF – Damian Stack

0- Less than sixty seconds into the game and Shane Conway is on the scoreboard from the placed ball

1- Pretty much straight away and from the puck-out Kilmoyley strike back through Daniel Collins

3- Shane Conway points his second free of the game

7- Conway is at it again with a blistering­ly brilliant point from play to extend Lixnaw’s lead to two

14 - The young maestro makes it a three point lead with another point from play as Kilmoyley are left to rue a number of missed chances by Collins from frees against the breeze into the Mitchel’s end 19 - Kilmoyley – somewhat against the run of play – get the game’s opening goal through Collins. First Seán Nolan fed Kieran Regan whose effort for a goal was blocked down, Collins made no mistake with the rebound

25 - Conway scores another screamer, this time from well inside his own half of the pitch, even wind assisted, as it was, it was hugely impressive

28 - Lixnaw seize on a mistake by Kilmoyley shot-stopper John Brendan O’Halloran as the twenty four time champions seek to carry the ball from defence. After the turnover John Griffin and Shane Conway combine and Griffin sends the ball to the net

29 - Conway points a free to extend Lixnaw’s lead to five

30 (+1) - Collins points a free to shave a little off Lixnaw’s half-time advantage

Half-time - Lixnaw 1-7 Kilmoyley 1-3 30 - Collins makes it a one score game with another pointed free

33 - Michael Conway gets on the score board with a trademark point from play / Soon afterwards his younger brother gets in on the act with another point from play

34 - Kilmoyley craft a goal-scoring opportunit­y, but Kerry number 1 Martin Stackpoole is equal to it / Joe McElligott points from play once the ball is recycled

37 - Shane Conway points a free 41 - Conway points another free, despite playing against the breeze Lixnaw are hurling better than their rivals

42 - Just as it was beginning to look good for Lixnaw – they led by six following Conway’s point – Kilmoyley showed how quickly a game of hurling can turn when Jordan Brick sent a beautiful long pass down the centre of the Lixnaw defence to the waiting Maurice O’Connor, who made absolutely no mistake with his finish past Stackpoole

44 - Conway points a free from about the halfway line into the breeze with seeming consummate ease

45 - Kilmoyley begin to enjoy their best spell of the half when Kieran Regan points from wide on the left / Mere moments later the full-forward is back on the scoreboard with another beautifull­y struck point

46 - Eoin McCarthy comes into the Kilmoyley side in place of Seán Maunsell / Shane Conway sets up his namesake Shane McElligott for a point from play

49 - Collins points from the halfway line, the game has really developed into a battle of wills between the two talismans. It’s now a two point game, 2-8 to 1-13

50 - Conway stretches Lixnaw’s lead back to three with a pointed free / John Buckley replaces Colin Sheehy for Lixnaw

52 - Collins points a free

53 - Collins points another free. It’s now a one point game, 2-10 to 1-14 57 - Collins points a third free onthe-trot to level the game

58 - Jeremy McKenna replaces Shane McElligott for Lixnaw / Michael Quilter assists Shane Conway for a vitally needed score for Lixnaw

59 - Raymond Galvin replaces John Griffin for Lixnaw

60 - Shane Conway scores a magical point having twice bounced the ball off the turf with his hurl, outrageous skill and a point worthy of winning a county final

60 (+2) - Kilmoyley have a chance for a goal after a period of pressure, but Joe McElligott’s effort is just wide

60 (+4) - Jonathan Silles replaces an injured Darragh Shanahan

60 (+5) - Kilmoyley’s Seánie Murnane drops a long distance free into the dangerzone, a move born of necessity and desperatio­n that pays dividends when Daniel Collins is fouled in the area earning a penalty 60 (+6) - Collins steps up to take the penalty, which is saved brilliantl­y to the left of Martin Stackpoole. The referee blows the full-time whistle much to the chagrin of the Kilmoyley players

Full-time - Lixnaw 1-16 Kilmoyley 2-11

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